Chief Rugby Reporter

Stephen Moore knows what it takes to beat the All Blacks. Photo: Jason Oxenham

It will have to be a perfect night to beat the best team in the world.

Injured Wallabies hooker Stephen Moore has played 20 Bledisloe Cup Tests and been on the winning team just four times.

All four were different, from the ecstasy of James O'Connor's nail-biting conversion in Hong Kong in 2010 to the steam-train-like All Blacks' comeback that was not quite enough in Brisbane in 2011.

All Moore can say about what it takes to beat New Zealand, from the four victories he has been involved in during a 92-Test career, is that it has to be a perfect night for the Wallabies.

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"The main thing you have to understand is that you're going out there to play the best team in the world, so you have to do everything right and everything has to go right," he said.

"Set-piece has to be solid, your defence has to be solid, your bench has to be solid. You need to start well – that's something the boys will want to do – and your last 20 [minutes] is going to be very important as well.

"The All Blacks are going to bring guys on who will want to change the game and are capable of doing that. Our squad is building towards that sort of capability as well, and it's going to be critical."

Moore is 10 weeks into a seven-month rehabilitation on his reconstructed left knee, so he has had plenty of time to think about it, even after his wife Courtney gave birth to their second child, a daughter they named Darcy, two weeks ago.

As Test captain for a brief spell in June, Moore was chief hype-killer, refusing to talk up the Wallabies' chances leading into the new international season.

But then injury ended his season, Australia accounted for France 3-0 and the Waratahs won the Super Rugby title. Even Moore, as hard and stubborn as they come, would have had trouble containing the buzz this week.

"There is always excitement around this time and people want us to win, so that generally leads to talk about it," he said.

"The Waratahs did really well and you want that excitement and buzz before a home game, but the boys all know what they've got to do. They all know it's a completely different beast – Test rugby and Super rugby. The All Blacks are not the Crusaders and likewise the Wallabies are not the Waratahs."

Beale and inside-centre Matt Toomua will be tasked with making early incursions in All Blacks' territory – and the scoreboard. If Australia do not get off to a flyer at ANZ Stadium on Saturday, they will find themselves in the diabolical position of chasing a runaway train.

Likewise, reserve No.10 Bernard Foley will be well placed to have a crack off the bench. His injection against Argentina in Rosario last year – his Test debut – was a game-changer for the Wallabies.

Moore has been on the receiving end of more than a few All Blacks' comebacks. And he was just across the Irish Sea in Cardiff with the Wallabies when New Zealand pegged back a 15-point half-time deficit to claim victory 24-22 against Ireland in Dublin.

It is the reason they are favourites to claim a new international record of 18 consecutive Test wins this week.

Moore knows what McKenzie will ask of the likes of Foley, Nick Phipps, Will Skelton and Scott Higginbotham.

"They did a similar thing in South Africa, they scored in the last minute to win," he said. "That's what the best team in the world does. You've really got to be prepared."

Stephen Moore spoke to Fairfax Media on behalf of HSBC, official bank of the Wallabies.